FAILURE IS INEVITABLE
What You Do Next Matters Most
This isn’t a book about avoiding failure. That’s impossible. It’s about what happens afterward.
Through stories drawn from more than three decades of coaching, leadership, family, relationships, and life, Glen Tourville explores the moments that shaped the way he thinks about success and failure.
Not because he has all the answers.
But because a lifetime of getting some things right—and plenty of things wrong—can teach you something worth sharing.
Your score is information. It isn’t your identity.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for anyone who has worked hard for something that didn’t turn out the way they hoped.
It is for anyone who has had to start over, adjust expectations, question their direction, or figure out what comes next.
It is for people who have succeeded and discovered that success did not answer every question—and for people who have failed and discovered that failure did not have to be the end of the story.
The stories come from Glen’s life, but the questions behind them belong to all of us.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND INSIDE
Stories about success and disappointment, leadership and humility, relationships and responsibility, starting over and continuing forward.
Some of the stories come from soccer. Others come from family, work, friendship, and the unexpected turns that life can take.
Each one points toward the same larger idea: failure is inevitable, but what happens next is still ours to decide.
The goal isn’t to tell you how to live. It is to offer stories, lessons, and questions that might help you think differently about your own experiences.
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
After more than six decades of living, coaching, leading, succeeding, failing, and starting over, I began to see how often the lessons that mattered most were learned along the way.
The experiences are uniquely mine, but many of the challenges are not. We all face moments when things don’t go as planned, when success doesn’t feel quite like we expected, or when life asks us to figure out what comes next.
That is why I wanted to share these stories—not because I have the answers, but because our experiences can sometimes help each other see our own lives a little differently.